Average Quote by Derek Walcott

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

— Charles Bukowski

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which…

— Thom Gunn

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can…

— Michel Faber

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

— Steve Toltz

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's…

— Earl Sweatshirt